This is a note to let you know that I've just added the patch titled
staging: r8188eu: fix endless loop in recv_func
to the 5.15-stable tree which can be found at:
http://www.kernel.org/git/?p=linux/kernel/git/stable/stable-queue.git;a=summary
The filename of the patch is:
staging-r8188eu-fix-endless-loop-in-recv_func.patch
and it can be found in the queue-5.15 subdirectory.
If you, or anyone else, feels it should not be added to the stable tree,
please let <stable@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxx> know about it.
commit 00bcbebaceccde077b6cd8902a8165c2c906cc3d
Author: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
Date: Sat Feb 26 19:14:53 2022 +0100
staging: r8188eu: fix endless loop in recv_func
[ Upstream commit 1327fcf175fa63d3b7a058b8148ed7714acdc035 ]
Fix an endless loop in recv_func. If pending_frame is not NULL, we're
stuck in the while loop forever. We have to call rtw_alloc_recvframe
each time we loop.
Fixes: 15865124feed ("staging: r8188eu: introduce new core dir for RTL8188eu driver")
Reported-by: Pavel Skripkin <paskripkin@xxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Martin Kaiser <martin@xxxxxxxxx>
Link: https://lore.kernel.org/r/20220226181457.1138035-4-martin@xxxxxxxxx
Signed-off-by: Greg Kroah-Hartman <gregkh@xxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxxx>
Signed-off-by: Sasha Levin <sashal@xxxxxxxxxx>
diff --git a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
index e082edfbaad8..30ca9f1e0363 100644
--- a/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
+++ b/drivers/staging/r8188eu/core/rtw_recv.c
@@ -1942,8 +1942,7 @@ static int recv_func(struct adapter *padapter, struct recv_frame *rframe)
struct recv_frame *pending_frame;
int cnt = 0;
- pending_frame = rtw_alloc_recvframe(&padapter->recvpriv.uc_swdec_pending_queue);
- while (pending_frame) {
+ while ((pending_frame = rtw_alloc_recvframe(&padapter->recvpriv.uc_swdec_pending_queue))) {
cnt++;
recv_func_posthandle(padapter, pending_frame);
}
